Obj. ID: 58576 Holocaust memorial near Rumšiškės, Lithuania, 1991
Memorial Name
Rumšiškių žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass Murder Site and Grave of Rumšiškės Jews
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jews of Rumšiškės, victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The monument is located on the grounds of the Ethnographic Museum. It is marked on the museum map. The monument is a brown granite stele with a carved Star of David at the top and text in Yiddish and Lithuanian.
Inscription:
In Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט האבן די
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
אין 1941 געמארדעט יידן -
מענער, פרויען, קינדער
Translation: At this place, Hitler’s murderers and their local helpers, in 1941, murdered Jews – men, women and children.
In Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje
nacistai ir jų
talkininkai 1941 m.
nužudė žydus –
vaikus, moteris
ir vyrus
Translation: At this place, the Nazis and their local helpers in 1941 killed Jews, men, women, children.
Commissioned by
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Stella 67x100x10 cm
In August 15, 1941, the Rumšiškės police department chief reported to the director of the Lithuanian police department that 140 Jews who had formerly been in the town–men, women and children– were being held in one neighborhood and under police supervision. About 70 people were taken away and about 70 left, all og them children and elderlyʼ. On August 29, 1941, around noon, a group of white armbanders took 80 Jews to ditches dug at the outskirts of Pieveliai village. Trucks soon arrived carrying (Kaunas Lithuanian self-defense unit) troops, around 10 or 15 people. The drunken soldiers shot the Jews from a distance of about ten feet.
A monument was erected in 1991.
Unique Site Code 38341
Status Protected by the state since 2014-12-16
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), http://holocaustatlas.lt/LT/#a_atlas/search//page/18/item/62/.
Kultūros vertybių registras (Register of the Cultural Heritage), http://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/6f9afb3d-f300-4b2f-84a8-ea7d7a58ca01.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 94.